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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 1

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Malinda S Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder; Michael A Soltys, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jennifer Kracha, University of Colorado Boulder

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, team-based design project [1], [2].​ ​Thesemester-long projects for the course are traditionally chosen by individual professors, and topicsrange from assistive technology projects with actual clients to water filtration systems fordeveloping countries, among others. First year engineering undergraduate students spend thesemester learning about the design process by working on teams to produce a tangible finalproject, culminating with an Engineering Design Expo at the end of the semester. Severalengineering departments require this course for first-year students, including mechanical, civil,environmental, and aerospace engineering.Further research from this team and others around service-based projects suggests that students inactual client

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Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 1

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Hannah Dawes Budinoff, Pima Community College

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Engineering Design Graphics

the semester, butstudents had mixed agreement about whether the sketching activities were helpful for learningcourse material. Our results are compared to previously reported findings from four-yearinstitutions and other community colleges, when available. We highlight promising strategies topromote learning and confidence for diverse student populations learning engineering graphics,which could potentially improve retention at other community colleges and four-yearinstitutions.IntroductionIn an effort to increase access to university education for low- and middle-class families, at least17 states have begun offering opportunities to attend two-year colleges tuition free [1]. Already,roughly 50% of engineers in the workforce with a terminal

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College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

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Jen Symons, University of Portland; Kate Rohl, University of Portland

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information may provide potential mechanisms toincentivize individual faculty engagement in industry partnerships, foster overall program andschool support of these collaborations, and serve as a model for extending this work to otherinstitutions.Introduction Industry partnerships in capstone design programs have increased substantially over thepast few decades. Studies have highlighted how these partnerships can be beneficial to multiplestakeholders [1], [2]. Working with industry partners can benefit students, engineering programsand partnering companies. However, potential benefits to faculty are rarely considered. Based onthe critical role faculty play in student engagement and learning, more consideration of facultyengagement within

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ECCD - Technical Session 1 - Energy & Electrical Engineering

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Aman Luthra, University of Georgia; Tom Lawrence P.E., University of Georgia; John M. Mativo, University of Georgia

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(CURO) engineering program. Research is done underthe direction of an engineering faculty member. CURO promotes sustained, progressive,and faculty-mentored research opportunities for UGA’s undergraduates. CURO Honors Scholarsreceive $3,000 in funding each year, enjoy mentoring and community support, and attend specialseminars, workshops, events, and activities. CURO Honors Scholars pursue their own researchagenda in their first semester at UGA, and they can conduct research in any discipline at UGA,including (but not limited to) physical, biological, and social sciences as well as business,international affairs, engineering, humanities, and the fine and performing arts [1]. In this project, the student proposed to design and study how to

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington; Anat Caspi P.E., The Taskar Center for Accessible Technology; Heather A. Feldner, University of Washington; Molly Y. Mollica, University of Washington; Shawn M. Rundell, University of Washington; George Zatloka, Design Research Consultant; Jennifer Mankoff, University of Washington; Katherine M. Steele, University of Washington

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. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 HuskyADAPT: A Project-Based Accessible Design Course (Experience)IntroductionIn this Experience Report, we document the design and implementation of a project-basedaccessible design course offered by HuskyADAPT (Accessible Design and Play Technology)[1], a multidisciplinary initiative at University of Washington (UW) that promotes an inclusiveculture and provides opportunities for students to engage in accessible design projects. Theinnovation of the course is the participatory design component with local people with disabilities,who serve as needs experts for the projects [2].Here we document our experience in an inclusive design course where student

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NSF Grantees: First Year Programming (1)

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Lizzie Santiago, West Virginia University; Anika Coolbaugh Pirkey, West Virginia University

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problems solvedusing diverse methods [1-3].Most problems in engineering are graded using a rubric that accounts for the solution, and not forthe thought process. The simplicity of those rubrics does not permit the identification ofdeficiencies in problem solving skills. In this project, a problem solving rubric developed forPhysics students was adapted to assess the problem solving skills of engineering studentsenrolled in a first semester engineering course. Unlike most rubrics used in engineering courses,this rubric grades the thought process, and splits the problem solving approach into separatecategories: Useful Description, Engineering and Math Approach, Application of Engineering,Mathematical Procedures, and Logical Progression. In this

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NSF Grantees: K-12 Session 1

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Eliza Gallagher, Clemson University; Anna Marie Vagnozzi, Clemson University; Rachel Lanning, Clemson University ; D. Andrew Brown, Clemson University; Christy Brown, Clemson University; Kristin Kelly Frady, Clemson University; Julia Machele Brisbane, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Michael A. Matthews P.E., University of South Carolina; Joseph Murphy, University of California, Los Angeles; Khushikumari Patel, Clemson University; Aubrie Lynn Pfirman, Lander University; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel; Richard H Roberts Jr, Florence Darlington Technical College; Ronald W. Welch P.E., The Citadel; Anand K. Gramopadhye, Clemson University

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from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in 1990 and 1999, respectively. He became the Dean of Engineering at The Citadel on 1 July 2011. Prior to his current position, he was the Department Head of Civil Engineering at The University of Texas at Tyler from Jan 2007 to June 2011 as well as served in the Corps of Engineers for over 24 years including eleven years on the faculty at the United States Military Academy.Dr. Anand K. Gramopadhye, Clemson University Dr. Anand K. Gramopadhye’s research focuses on solving human-machine systems design problems and modeling human performance in technologically complex systems such as health care, aviation and man- ufacturing. He has more than 200 publications in these

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College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

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Faye R. Jones, Florida State University; Marcia A. Mardis, Florida A&M University - Florida State University

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employers’ desired competencies, identified employability skills valuable for entry-level technician positions. The employers who participated in this study represented the growingAM industry sub-sectors of timber, pipeline, and textiles. Our findings suggest that ruralemployers face challenges common to all AM employers: 1) the need for workplace skills, suchas a strong commitment to teamwork and ongoing professional development; and 2) difficultiesin encouraging employees’ transitions from job to career pathway, thus increasing their in-fieldpersistence. These results have implications for educational institutions that offer AM degreesand for graduates who seek rural employment in the AM field.Acknowledgements: This material is based upon work

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College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

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Shuvra Das, University of Detroit Mercy; Darrell K. Kleinke P.E., University of Detroit Mercy; David Pistrui, University of Detroit Mercy

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been invented yet - 49% of current jobs have the potential for machine replacement, with 60% having at least 1/3 of their activities automated - 80% of the skills trained for in the last 50 years can now be outperformed by machines - At a global level, technically automatable activities touch the equivalent of 1.1 billion employees and $15.8 trillion in wages The rapidly changing landscape of the workplace and associated uncertainty has raised a lot of questions about the future of our education system. The impact of different industrial revolutions on education, just like all other parts of society has been profound. Education 1.0 was no education at all. At that time children worked in manual jobs and child labor was the order of

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NSF Grantees: First Year Programming (1)

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Brett Tallman P.E., Montana State University; Tessa Sybesma, Montana State University; William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University; Bryce E. Hughes, Montana State University; Monika Kwapisz, Montana State University; Emma Annand, Montana State University; Shannon Ranch, Montana State University

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projects and corresponding support activities are instrumentalin engineering student leadership development.IntroductionIndustry has consistently called for professionals with a mix of technical and professional skills.The combination of which is not only necessary to successfully navigate the workplace, but it isalso needed to allow teams with diverse skill sets to effectively solve the complexinterdisciplinary problems that exist today. While the education system has worked to increasegraduation rates of technical professionals-- such as engineers—there are persistent demandsfrom industry to improve professional skill competencies [1], [2]. This NSF-funded project hasworked to bridge this gap by developing a data-driven understanding of how

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Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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Adriana Rios Santiago, Texas Southmost College; Anabel Pineda-Briseño, Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico/Instituto Tecnologico de Matamoros; Jesus A. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Uriel Saul Huerta P.E., Tecnologico de Leon

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Architectural Engineering, Construction Engineering

society is facing require the abilityto comprehend complex problems and analyze them bearing in mind diverse perspectives. Forthis reason, the faculty defined a series of projects to study how the built environment can beenvisioned. Diverse examples of project collaborations between engineering and architectureprograms are to contribute to the education of future professionals to be able to operate in acollaborative environment, though leadership and innovation coordinated activities [1][2].MethodologyTerms such as ubiquitous computing and cloud computing have been embedded in a diversity ofdisciplines, due to its broad applications. Novel schemes in ubiquitous computing enable theopportunity to embed technology into the activities of everyday

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Empathy and Human-Centered Design 1

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Pamela L Dickrell, University of Florida; Lilianny Virguez, University of Florida; Andrea Goncher, University of Florida

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Design in Engineering Education

, practice fundamental makerspace skills (hand & powertools, solid modeling, 3D printing, Arduino based sensors and actuators, programming, etc.), andcollaborate in multidisciplinary teams to research, design, build, test, document, and present ontheir human-centered functional prototype. The integration of human-centered design and end-users as part of first-year design experience is important for promoting student interest andretention within engineering 1.Characteristics that differentiate “Engineering Design and Society” as a novel first year courseinclude the importance placed on human-centered design for first-year students. First-yearengineering design courses in the last couple of decades have been designed as project-based andhands-on

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New Engineering Educators 1: Learning Aids

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Mariana Silva, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Eric G. Shaffer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nicolas Nytko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jennifer R. Amos, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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one homework and two quizzes were used in this study, a total of 9 features wereavailable to train the prediction model.We first performed feature extraction using an Extra-Trees Classifier to identify the mostimportant features for the prediction model. Figure 1 shows all 9 features, and theircorresponding scores in terms of feature importance. Day count corresponds to the day thestudent started the assessment. For example, a student that takes the quiz on the first day has aday count equal to zero whereas a student that takes the quiz on the last day has a day countof three. duration is the time that a student takes to complete the assessment and score is thefinal grade in the assessment. Day_count_q1

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Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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others to join theirteam, and having the invitees then accept the invitation. Another project added a tabbed view forassignment creation. A third provided an anonymized view so that we can use live data in demoswithout revealing any student names. Four of these projects have led to conference papers co-authored by independent-study students [1–4] and five to workshop papers [5–9].The first masters thesis added features to support peer-reviewing student contributions to a wikitextbook [10]. This involved sequencing review of chapters so that prerequisite chapters wouldbe written and reviewed before chapters that depended on them. The first Ph.D. dissertation [11]involved the use of natural-language processing to evaluate features of reviews [12

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Empathy and Human-Centered Design 1

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Cristian Eduardo Vargas-Ordóñez, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Morgan M. Hynes, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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Design in Engineering Education

standard of living"[1]. This problem includes undernourishment, child mortality, poor access to schooling, lack ofaccess to electricity, sanitation, and drinking water, and any holding of housing, assets, andcooking fuel. To address this situation, in 2017, during the seventieth session of the GeneralAssembly of the United Nations, world leaders adopted the outcome document "Transformingour world: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development". The report became the route forachieving sustainable development to free "the human race from the tyranny of poverty and wantand to heal and secure our planet" [2]. However, according to the most recent results, for 2018,“across the 105 countries covered by the Global MPI [Multidimensional Poverty Index], 1.3

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 1

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Sarah Lilly, University of Virginia; Anne Marguerite McAlister, University of Virginia; Sarah J. Fick, University of Virginia; Jennifer L. Chiu, University of Virginia; Kevin W. McElhaney, Digital Promise

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individualizededucational plans (IEPs).CurriculumThe four-week Water Runoff project had students redesign their school grounds, challengingthem to reduce water runoff while addressing design criteria such as parking, grassy fields, andaccessible play areas (Chiu et al., 2019). This study focuses particularly on three of the unit’sengineering-focused lessons (Table 1).Table 1. Water Runoff activities and targeted NGSS practices for selected lessons in this study. Lesson Name Focal Engineering Practices Activity Description Design Generating Designs Generate different playground designs given data on different surface materials. Test Test, Evaluate

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Engineering Management Division 1: The Practice of EMD

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Lawrence M. Strenger, CATME; Behzad Beigpourian, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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multidisciplinary teams” is also expected[1]. Thus, engineering instructors are encouraged to use teamwork in their classrooms. However, when teams are formed, it is common for conflicts to occur and cause problemsin teams [2], [3]. Conflicts between individuals or groups of individuals on a team can be quitecomplex. Team-based conflicts are typically categorized into three different groups: relationshipconflict, task conflict, and process conflict [4]. Classification of a conflict is dependent uponwhat the disagreement pertains to. This paper examines how these types of conflicts impact theperceived effectiveness of engineering student teams. Relationship conflict is typically due to personality differences among teammates ordisagreements on

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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Hamidreza Sharifan, Texas A&M University; Janie M. Moore, Texas A&M University

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Texas A&M University in College Station. A native of Columbus, Ohio, she attended North Carolina A&T State University where she received a B.S. in Bio Environmental Engineering in 2006. She then began pursuing her graduate education at Purdue University in the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, completing her Ph.D. in 2015. Her primary research areas include 1) mycotoxin risk assessment and treatment in stored grains and 2) innovate instructional strategies for Biological and Agricultural Engineering students. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020The role of the co-curricular spaces in engagement and success ofminority

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CPDD Session 1 - Generating Intellectual Excitement for Professional Learners

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Ben Bernard, North Dakota State University; Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University

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Course Delivery for Cybersecurity EducationAbstractThe need for quality cybersecurity education is growing rapidly due to a significant level ofcurrent unfilled demand, which is growing rapidly, for cybersecurity professionals [1]. Thisdemand was created and is driven by the ever-increasing rate of technology implementation inmission-critical roles throughout industry, governments, and society.Due, in part, to this need and for a variety of other reasons, numerous non-collegiatecybersecurity offerings have been launched [2]. Many of these programs promise to offer theeducation and career prospects of a 2-year or 4-year degree in a matter of weeks or months.While the focus is somewhat different and these programs do not offer the well

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First-Year Programs: Metacognition, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation #1

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Abigail M. Richards, Montana State University; Ryan Anderson, Montana State University; Carrie B. Myers, Montana State University

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before postdoctoral studies at City College of New York. He is currently an associate professor at Montana State University.Dr. Carrie B Myers, Montana State University Dr. Carrie B. Myers is a professor in Adult and Higher Education graduate program at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. Her research areas include (1) socialization experiences of undergrad- uate and graduate students in STEM, with a special interest in underrepresented groups; (2) institutional factors and faculty practices that enhance students’ learning and socialization experiences; and (3) the P20 context and how it increases students’ higher education outcomes. American c

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First-year Programs: Retention and Bridge Programs #1

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Sonia M. Bartolomei-Suarez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Manuel A. Jimenez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Luisa Guillemard, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Oscar Marcelo Suarez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Aidsa I. Santiago-Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Nayda G. Santiago, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Carla Lopez Del Puerto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Pedro O. Quintero, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Nelson Cardona-Martínez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Anidza Valentin, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

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arecommonly considered successful. A large number of studies in education research haveaddressed the attrition phenomena and the factors affecting graduation rates. Representativeexamples include the works by Spady [1], Tinto [2], and Bean [3], that established a baseknowledge on the reasons why students leave and became seminal works for dozens ofsubsequent publications on the subject. Studies have found that the level of success experiencedby first-year students significantly impacts the rest of their academic life [4].Engineering programs offered at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM) College ofEngineering (CoE) are five-year long. Longitudinal data obtained for over one decade denotes asustained high retention rate for first-year

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First-year Programs: Retention and Bridge Programs #1

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Jeremiah Abiade, University of Illinois at Chicago; Joanne Moliski, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Framework to Support Engineering Student SuccessMotivationThis work in progress describes a program recently implemented at our institution to proactivelyprepare students to deal with poor mental health, periods of intense stress, and mental andemotional disorders (MED) generally. In a review of 11 articles, Storrie et. al. determined thatthe number of students with documented MEDs is increasing dramatically [1]. Approximatelyhalf of the students involved in the various studies reported that their MED started after theybegan their undergraduate studies [1]. At our institution we are seeing dramatic increases in thedemand for counseling services. A related concern is the prediction of an impending enrollmentcrisis in

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First-Year Programs: Metacognition, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation #1

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Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Pil Kang, University of New Mexico; Yan Chen, University of New Mexico; Chen Qiu, University of New Mexico; Jordan Orion James, University of New Mexico

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selected as a National Academy of Education / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow and a 2018 NSF CAREER awardee in engineering education research. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions; this includes a two-strand research program fo- cused on (1) authentic assessment, often aided by interactive technology, and (2) design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students designing to learn.Dr. Pil Kang, University of New Mexico Sung ”Pil” Kang is an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico. His academic interests include change management, change model validation, and mindset evolution. He may

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 1

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Paul Jason Weinberg Weinberg, Oakland University

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, 1998; Bolger et al., 2012; Weinberg, 2017a;2017b; 2019). In Bolger et al.’s study, children predicted and explained the motion of pegboardlinkages (Figure 1). Lehrer and Schauble interviewed second- and fifth-grade students, withinengineering tasks, to assess their reasoning about the mechanics of gears. In both of thesestudies, the majority of participants did not engage in mechanistic explanations.Figure 1. Example of a system of pegboard linkages. In Weinberg (2017a; 2017b; 2019), participants predicted and explained the motion ofpegboard linkages represented on an assessment. Most children’s mechanistic reasoning wasfragmented, displaying few of the mechanistic elements necessary to describe lever motion.First, most did not seem to

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Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 1

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Ahmet Can Sabuncu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John M. Sullivan Jr., Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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final delivery of the project is a working prototype and a report thatdelineates the task of the prototype, theoretical information that pertains to the design, materialsand methods, results and conclusion on the project.INTRODUCTIONIncreasingly our appliances, machines and even the clothes we wear are equipped with sensors.As educators, we need to educate our emerging workforce to design, fabricate and maintain thesenew “smart” appliances. Through the maker movement [1] many high school students arefamiliar with smart technology equipment before arriving on our campuses and our challenge isto engage them in developing a more rigorous engineering approach to the design, testing anddeployment of sensor systems. In response to this challenge we

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Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 1

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Philip Jackson, University of Florida; Joshua Rudaitis, University of Florida

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the remotely-accessibleinfrastructure to create an on-line lab. Figure 1 shows a simple 3D rendering of a laboratorysetup that could support an undergraduate course in fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, or heattransfer. The working fluid in the system is water and students observe the fluid’s behavior bycontrolling and measuring various physical properties. The rightmost water bin contains aheating element. The leftmost bin does not and is of a different volume than the first. A pumpcirculates the water through the system while transducers measure flow rate and pressure.Thermocouples record the temperature in various locations throughout the system. Severalinexpensive Sony Playstation 3 Eye cameras are affixed to the aluminum frame of the rig

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Engineering Management Division 1: The Practice of EMD

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Mustafa Shraim, Ohio University

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challenged to decrease their production costs without compromising quality[1]. However, W. Edwards Deming had warned that cutting costs to improve productivity andprofitability without established methods will only lead to disaster [2]. If costs are cut byarbitrarily reducing labor hours or using unverified sources of materials and components, itwould adversely impact quality. When this happens, customer satisfaction and loyalty wouldsuffer without immediate warning. For this reason, if no other, quality must be the starting pointfor improvement in productivity and profitability as Deming illustrated in his chain-reactionmodel in Figure 1 [3]. Accounting for costs of poor-quality would help focus attention on thereal problems

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 1

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Richard J. Aleong, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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-Dimensional learning which highlights how science learning takes place through theholistic and integrated learning of disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, andcross-cutting concepts [1]. Within these three dimensions, the science and engineering practiceshave been a focal point for pre-college science curriculum and instructional reform because oftheir emphasis on learning the ways scientists and engineers conduct their professional work [2].With an emphasis on what it means to do scientific inquiry and engineering design, the scienceand engineering practices place the learning of science knowledge in relation to the work ofscience and engineering. The use of engineering design-based tasks offers one pedagogical approach

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Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

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Andrea E. Surovek, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Andrea Lyn Liebl, University of South Dakota; Alyssa M. Kiesow, Northern State University; Mary Emery; Pam F. Rowland; Cynthia Anderson

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in STEM has been largely unmet across state institutions.One element of change has proven the most recalcitrant across past programs: the urgent need toeffectively and demonstrably change the institutional academic climate for women in the STEMsciences [1], [2]. One reason for the lack of long-term success in sustained institutional changefor gender equity is due to the fact that, “Gender equity should be seen as a systemic rather thanan individual issue” [3]. In order to address equity in higher education across a state system, wehave employed a “top-down” approach that goes beyond individual institutional administrationand starts at the state level. We use the “top-down” terminology to indicate that, although thisproposed work builds

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 1

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Panagiotis Skrimponis, New York University; Nikos Makris, University of Thessaly; Karen Cheng, Columbia University; Jonatan Ostrometzky, Columbia University; Zoran Kostic, Columbia University; Gil Zussman, Columbia University; Thanasis Korakis, New York University; Sheila Borges Rajguru, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey

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developed a teacher professional development (PD) program and atoolkit consisting of a hardware and software system to engage STEM teachers in learning aboutwireless technology through various hands-on activities and collaborative research. The PDprogram and the toolkit directly relate to the Cloud Enhanced Open Software Defined MobileWireless Testbed for City-Scale Deployment (COSMOS) testbed [1, 2] that is being deployed inWest Harlem (New York City) and to the NSF ERFI NewLAW project which focuses on wirelesscommunication. The PD program took place in Summers 2018 and 2019 within the frameworksof Research Experience for Teachers (RET) and Research Experience and Mentoring (REM)programs. Throughout the PD program, researchers and educational